After Pollard missed out on hitting a bouncer, Starc said a few words to Pollard, which did not go well with the Mumbai batsman. On the next delivery, Pollard who was on strike backed off, but surprisingly Starc followed him and bowled the delivery intentionally at the batsman. Pollard certainly did not like this, and threw his bat in anger, which fell short of him.

Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Virat Kohli also went to have a word with Pollard, who was visibly very upset with the incident. The social media websites such as Twitter were flooded with reactions on the incident. Here are a few:

Thinking back to Starc/Pollard and Russell/Watson clashes.. does UNFAIR PLAY come into it? Why doesn’t umpires penalise 5 runs to culprits?